Programme


Wednesday 14 July 2021

16:00 - 16:30 (CEST)
Opening conference
Welcome by Local Organising Committee & RC21 Board
16:30 - 17:45 (CEST)
Opening Plenary (P1)  |  Ash Amin
Space/Subject: Vernaculars of Endurance in Delhi's Slums and Streets

Break
18:15 - 19:45 (CEST)
Parallel Sessions 1
20:00 - 21:30 (CEST)
Parallel Sessions 2


Thursday 15 July 2021

12:00-13:30 (CEST)
Semi-Plenary (P2)  |  Friederike Landau
Infrastructuring Activism: On Political Difference in Public Art
Parallel Sessions 3
14:00 - 15:30 (CEST)
Parallel Sessions 4
15:45 - 17:15 (CEST)
IJURR Semi-Plenary (P3)  |  Sonia Arbaci
Paradoxes of segregation: housing, welfare,
and the production of urban inequality in
 (Southern) European cities
Parallel Sessions 5

Break
18:15 - 19:45 (CEST)
Parallel Sessions 6
20:00 - 21:30 (CEST)
Civil Society Semi-Plenary (P4) | Desmond D'S
& Manu Claeys (stRaten-generaal, BE)

Contesting urban infrastructure projects: experiences from the Antwerp Oosterweel link and the Durban port expansion projects

Parallel Sessions 7


Friday 16 July 2021

14:00 - 15:30 (CEST)
Semi-Plenary (P5) | Edgar Pieterse, Saheed Aderinto, 
Nadine Machikou, Kingsley Madueke, Vanessa Watson,
Lisa Weinstein & Nik Theodore
Presencing and publishing Urban Studies from Africa
Parallel Sessions 8
15:45 - 17:15 (CEST)
Semi-Plenary (P6) | Hillary Angelo,
Christopher Otter and Jens Lachmund
Urban History and Urban Theory:
A Boundless Dialogue?
Parallel Sessions 9
17:30 - 19:00 (CEST)
Closing Plenary (P7) | Ayona Datta
“Our stories, our voices”: A feminist toolkit for decolonising the digital and urban margins
Rob Kitchin
The Right to the Smart City
19:00 - 19:10 (CEST)
Closing conference 
and announcement next RC21 conference